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Last weekend we had our National championship in 3 categorries, F3A-classic pattern, F3J-thermal soaring and F3K-hand throw gliders. Champnship was held in Alytus airfield already 4th time in a row.
Competition was divided in two parts (to save time on F3J equipment preparation) so 8 prelim and 4 final F3J rounds was held on saturday and 3 rounds of F3A and 8 of F3K took part on sunday. F3A Third round flight, it can also be found on FlyingGiants.com Unfortunately this year i could not get/prepare in time big 2m plane, and my last season glow plane is already sold, so i had to use small Vanquish from Extreme Flight, that is powered by Flight Power EVO25 2500mah 4S pack. P07 is quite difficult sequence specialy for smaller planes, so i had to make some changes on my Vanquish to make it fly even better. I always find interesting to experiment with some aerodynamic devices to make good planes fly even better. This time i use CPLR idea T-Catalyzer. Since it was shown in France 2005 f3a WC, i was wondering is it just "look at me" type device ore it really work and give advantage. People like CPLR, BPLR and QQ don't look like persons that use device without real benefit.
So i put small t Catalyzer on Vanquish, and i was surprised with nice changes i saw in flight; * KE/KE loops does not require so much rudder input. * All rolling maneuvers improve, fuselage stay horizontal, and maneuver looks smoother. * Vanquish is small plane and it was quite hard to make good looking integrated rolling circles (not talking about rolling loops), Canard help here as well, with less correction it looks better. T-canard is made from balsa, and reinforced/attached with 3mm carbon tube, inside of fuselage is also reinforced with balsa. Weight ready to attach canard was only 10g! Canard view from top. 
Affter one week of practice i get use to plane and ready for competition.
Guest from Latvia Aigars with his own construction airplane powered with two stroke OS160fx. Paulius airplane. F3A Results (2 best round summ of 3) ; 1.Donatas Pauzuolis 899 points.
2.Vitalijus Pilkionis 838 points.
3.Arturas Narbutas 462 points.
4.Paulius Raupys 425 points.
5.Aivars Banders 373 points. My dad Rimas help to start engine. Rolling Harrier. First hover affter engine brake in! Low and slow;)  Now im happy;) I stay one more day in Alytus for some flying, here you can see happy pilot, Jersey modeller fuel can with F3A championship cup that was won with small Vanquish. Discusssions about my Yak and giant airplane servos on FlyingGiants.com
F3K F3K class grow and become more popular each year, this time there was total 14 pilots. Almost all of them flew "Vladimir's modells" Blaster-2 (including me as well).
F3K final results affter 8 rounds.
Ilja Krug practicing beffore competition;)
Some F3K pilots had to much beer on saturday...?;)
In championship i meet one very nice guy, who is working on special FX electronics for RC models, check out his amazing work and preview video from championship. All heli flying was made by Evaldas Cerniauskas.
F3J Its not a secret that F3J is most popular class in Lithuania, so it was not surpise that it atract biggest number of participants. Level in this class is really hi, and it always give interesting finals. 2008 F3J Lithuania Champion Algimantas Vasiliauskas. Juozas Svirusis took second place, in both F3J and F3K. This year championship was very sucesful for me, and i would like to thank all my sponsors and people that help me for big support in 2008 year!!! My dad Rimas
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